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WISPS - useful list of wireless "rural broadband" providers

At ADSL Guide, wireless broadband forms a significant thread for general discussion, and the site has now set up a "live" page to be updated showing who, in the UK, is a WISP.

The WISP (wireless ISP) list is here, and the list as of this month (October 2003) reads:

1st Broadband, Penwith in Cornwall

Accelerate Broadband, Loanhead, Bilston Glen and Pentlandfield

Air-Band, Upton Snodsbury, Crowle, Hanley Swan, Upton upon Severn.

Buckfastleigh, Devon

Better Broadband for Britain, Association of Broadband Communities involved in building their own community broadband networks

Country Broadband, Burbage in Wiltshire, with triggers for other areas.

Community Mesh, Tunbridge Wells, Buxted, Robertsbridge and Benenden

DevilsDyke.net, Poynings, Fulking, Edburton, Henfield, and Cowfold in the South Downs area.

EdenFaster, Eden Valley, Cumbria

EHotSpots, Bridlington and Stamford

Essex Broadband, Basildon

FDM Broadband, Hungerford, Lambourn, Kintbury, Aldbourne

Highnam Broadband, Gloucestershire

Hi Wide, Scottish Highlands, rollout for 2004

IAP.UK.NET, Portishead and Pill area of North Somerset

Kent Broadband, Ashford

Ledbury Broadband, Herefordshire

Looseconnection, four free Wi-Fi hotspots in Brighton

GXNetworks, Liberty, Tele2, Basingstoke, Guildford, Crystal Palace, Slough, Bradford, Leeds,

Sheffield, Nottingham, Sleaford, Coventry, Leicester and Uxbridge

LTT Wireless Broadband, EdenBridge, West Kent and East Sussex

Mesh Broadband Broadband, Chafford Hundred, Hullbridge, Shoebury, Great Wakering, Burnt Mills Estate

North Norfolk BB, Sheringham, Cromer and Holt

Pipemedia AirDSL, Barlestone, Carlton, Far Coton, Market Bosworth

Rabbit, The Remote Area Broadband Inclusion Trial

Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Borders rural broadband

Shere Broadband, Farley Green, Peaslake, Shere in Surrey Hills

Skysurf UK, currently Witham St Hughes, Thorpe On The Hill, near Lincoln

UK Broadband, company providing wireless to business parks.

UK Wireless, covers Preston, and the surrounding area.

West Haddon, West Haddon and Winwick in rural Northamptonshire

wrbb.net, Bingham, Bottesford, Bourne, Elton, Scalford, South Witham, Stamford, and Uppingham

The site provides complete URL links for most of these.